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Thank you Slartybart. Though I may not be a computer genius I have been around them, building them, and configuring them for almost 20 years. I am good at troubleshooting and I think I can recognize when one is "shooting in the dark" because there seems to be nothing to go on. They were all very generic and wide scoped suggestions. I did not say they were invalid. They would be perfectly valid if I had nothing to start with. However, I provided the required information and was able to give a huge clue that the incident was only happening when idle. Which, as it turns out, was the a key to the problem.

Thank you all for your help. My main issue was that I could not troubleshoot the dump logs nor was I confident I could read them properly. That's when I came here. The event viewer did not offer any evidence of the solution. I have checked my processor temps and they are fine, running about 60 degrees C.

I will look into the other suggestions (such as BIOS updates) for the causes of the other anomalies. Thank you again.

I meant no disrespect in any of my replies. Maybe it was the simplistic approach and not providing "why's". I do like to learn.

Since I purchased this machine I have never gotten the hibernate to work. When I first got it, I formatted the drive and did a fresh install of Win 7. I think it had XP before. I tried to update everything but whenever I tried to make it hibernate it would shut off...which is what made me search the advanced sleep sections as this seemed to be what its doing. I don't clutter my machine with software as I use it and want to keep it stable and fast. This is why these are anomalies to me. I have not done any significant changes or added any hardware or software, yet these occurrences began happening in the last month. Some software updated I'm sure as well Windows updates. I read somewhere that hibernate doesn't like some video cards. As you know this is not a new machine.

You answered my question already Slartybart. I was wondering how to rebuild the hibernate file. I will give this a shot. Thanks everyone.

As already mentioned, look for a BIOS update. That may fix the hibernation problem.

I don't know what the ISM does but it may not play well with the stop states. Again, update the BIOS.

The processors don't over-throttle, it's more under throttle or a stop state. Throttling is a function the processor goes through when it over heats. It turns itself off for short periods in an attempt to save itself from catastrophic failure. This is a built in feature of the Intel processors. The OS and user have no control over it. When it occurs, it's an indication that the processor(s) have reached a critical temperature. If the throttling is allowed to continue, permanent damage to the CPU could occur. Your log indicated that both CPUs and both cores on each entered throttling states. They ARE over heating.

Yes. I set a custom scheme when I was playing with trying to get the hibernate feature to work. When it didn't, I set the main hibernate option to "never" but left the one in the advanced menu to 62 minutes. At some point the last few weeks it started working off that advanced menu setting by itself.

This does concern me. I have looked all over for "normal" temps for Xeon processors. Apparently I am not the only one who has them running high. I can't find exact numbers for normal operation but Intel says 79 C is max temp. One suggestion keeps coming up that the software tools reading the temps can be wrong and by a significant factor. There is no way to really know without putting an actually temp reader on the processor. This is a server class machine and I thought that the Xeon processors run a little hotter than most. I really don't know. I do know that the machine puts out a lot of heat. Its no big deal now, but in the Texas summers it makes a huge difference.

BSOD When Computer is Idle. I never see it happen.

BSOD while computer is idleHello
I'm writing to see if you can provide troubleshooting assistance with daily BSOD events I'm getting on my computer. They've been happening over the past week-2 weeks, primarily when the computer has been idle (i.e. at night, when I have been at work). I primarily use this machine for...

BSOD Help and Support

BSOD while computer is idleI had 2 BSODs last night, both times I was away from the computer and I came back to it with the BSOD staring back at me.
Running an Asus P8Z68-V Pro m/b and I recently installed the bluetooth driver. That was the only recent change I made to the computer I can remember which may be the cause.

BSOD Help and Support

BSOD happen everytime when computer is on, no pattern, random.Hello everyone,
i bought the computer about 2 years ago, it has been working great until one day, BSOD just randomly appeared and it became worst and worst, now i can not do anything with the laptop as BSOD happens so often. When it first happened, i do not recall if i install any new software or...

BSOD Help and Support

BSOD only when computer is idleThe computer has been running smooth for the last year and no upgrades were made.
the following is the spec.
3570K @ 4.5GHz
Asus Z77 V-PRO MOBO
Corsair 2*4GB RAM
CF 2*HIS 6870
There was no problem when I am actually using by computer. It only happens when I leave it alone.